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It seems too graphic
and unemotional.

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I would prefer
those grieving people.

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- For this double page here?

4
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Yes, for the big page.
- Okay.

5
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There's already a great deal
of misery in it!

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I like this sad
figure walking through

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the streets full of destruction...

8
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Fits perfect!

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And Goma! One million refugees!
Thousands died

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and couldn't be
buried in the volcanic

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soil. There were piles of corpses!

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Right! The piles of corpses...

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It'd be great!
There are the piles!

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Okay.

15
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That looks fantastic!

16
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You think we should
use this one? - I'd enlarge it.

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This is also a terrific picture.

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The corpses being dumped.
- Maybe we should put it here.

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Have it enlarged.
- Okay, fine.

20
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Can you tell that the corpses
being dumped aren't in Africa?

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You don't have
to see the corpses...

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You can substitute
them with this.

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Here you feel like you're being
shown some scene in Africa.

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It starts with Africa, and you
think it's an African horror trip.

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But his idea is worldwide horror.

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It zooms in again...
- Then there's the head...

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Then there's that poor guy.
- Looks terrific. - Okay.

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Exactly.
Then we'll have a look at it.

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Comma... now it's shorter.

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After the Berlin Wall fell,
wars changed.

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It was no longer nation against
nation,

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but people against people.

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Instead of high-tech weapons...
rifles

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and machetes.
- James Nachtwey,

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the world's most
famous war photographer,

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has portrayed
these new conflicts and

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victims in a way
nobody else ever could.

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My son has arrived!

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Oh, my son! Oh, my son!

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Oh, you!

41
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"Please, don't," I said.

42
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"My brother
is deaf and speechless."

43
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But they threw him
down from the truck,

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took his money and killed him.

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They cut off my other
brother's arm with a bread knife.

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They tore my uncle's
son from his arms,

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but he wouldn't let go.

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00:25:52,584 --> 00:25:59,148
So they shot him in the head,
and the child fell on the ground.

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They gave me 2 minutes time,

50
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and they held an automatic
weapon at my neck.

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They wanted money.

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Goodbye.

53
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,418
There are war photographers

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who are only
able to endure the horror

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of what they've seen,
experienced and escaped...

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like in Vietnam...

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by going with the soldiers
to the same brothels

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and bars
and drinking the same whisky.

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00:30:43,074 --> 00:30:46,043
Others have become cynical.

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00:30:46,511 --> 00:30:48,979
Jim is a remarkably
uncynical person,

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which is all the more remarkable,

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because most people have seen
a lot less misery and suffering.

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Lonely because...

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his experience sets him apart
from his colleagues and others.

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He has become
a different person

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as a result of those 25 years.

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00:33:56,434 --> 00:33:59,096
While we talked
about that horror

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in order to
comprehend what we saw,

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the absolute inferno of people

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who were dead,
dying and vomiting,

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00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:12,607
never-ending lines of people
waiting outside the first-aid tents,

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Jim said almost nothing.

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00:34:15,820 --> 00:34:17,151
Jim said hello. He talked

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00:34:17,488 --> 00:34:19,388
about some
organizational details,

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then he said, "I'm going to bed."

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And while
we needed beer to recover

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from what we'd seen that day,

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Jim had
one or two glasses of water

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before going to bed.
Then he got up early

80
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the next day to head out alone.

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00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,061
Good morning, Mister.
- Good morning.

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00:41:46,871 --> 00:41:50,363
For me, the early 80s
were characterized

83
00:41:50,674 --> 00:41:52,574
by my move to New York.

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00:41:53,644 --> 00:41:56,841
I was a photo editor for GEO.

85
00:41:57,314 --> 00:41:59,214
I'd worked
for SPIEGEL before that,

86
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and I had an opportunity

87
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to take over
the photography department

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at the New York office of STERN.

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That was in 1982.

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It was
the first time that Nachtwey

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came to STERN's office
with a portfolio,

92
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and that led to a friendship,

93
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a love affair.

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00:42:32,483 --> 00:42:37,682
Both of us had an idea

95
00:42:38,155 --> 00:42:42,091
what that New York situation
was supposed to lead to.

96
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,291
Nachtwey wanted
to make a name for himself.

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00:42:46,597 --> 00:42:48,531
He was very bright...

98
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and determined.
His mind was focused

99
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,736
Like flight routes.

100
00:43:01,445 --> 00:43:03,037
No winding roads.

101
00:43:03,514 --> 00:43:09,180
There was one distinct,
straight, narrow, stony path

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he had decided to take.

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00:43:19,029 --> 00:43:22,226
Of course,
at times I wished it was

104
00:43:22,733 --> 00:43:26,260
a warmer, closer,
more intense relationship.

105
00:43:26,737 --> 00:43:31,299
But his work was
of great importance.

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00:43:33,177 --> 00:43:37,079
I'll do it.
I'll do it with my pictures.

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00:43:37,514 --> 00:43:41,177
I'll convince
people with my pictures.

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00:44:06,443 --> 00:44:08,775
Nachtwey came
back from Nicaragua.

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00:44:09,246 --> 00:44:12,613
He was relaxed and happy.

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00:44:14,852 --> 00:44:19,653
He brought me a necklace
made of shells.

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He put it around my neck,
and I thought that was great.

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00:44:38,842 --> 00:44:41,402
I remember
the first time I met him.

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His hair was parted,
his jeans were creased,

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his shirt was immaculate.

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And amidst all
that dust and chaos,

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stood this man
I'd never seen before

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taking his pictures. He was
in no hurry like the others.

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He was somehow calm,

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as suddenly
South African photographer

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Ken Oosterbroek
was killed next to him.

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Normally, two sorts of journalists
are hit:

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the ones
on their first assignment,

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and the ones
who have been at it too long

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and think they're bulletproof.

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00:45:31,161 --> 00:45:35,063
Jim is in danger
of seeing himself as bulletproof,

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in danger of pushing his luck
once too often.

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As someone
who is quite reserved,

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he needs that kick,
that adventure,

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00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:52,347
that flow of adrenalin
and the fear of dying,

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in order to feel alive.

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00:45:55,018 --> 00:45:59,682
Jim is at his best
in the most extreme situation.

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That's it. He keeps
on pushing those limits.

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Tough...

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00:46:13,003 --> 00:46:14,265
Tough, tough, tough.

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00:46:20,010 --> 00:46:23,878
It's also very difficult
to talk to Nachtwey

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about the insane situations
he has narrowly escaped.

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00:46:28,952 --> 00:46:31,614
It's excruciating the way some
photographers and journalists

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00:46:32,089 --> 00:46:35,115
never stop talking about what
they've experienced.

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00:46:36,994 --> 00:46:37,961
With Nachtwey, however,

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you have to
drag everything out of him.

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You really have to beg him,

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00:46:45,469 --> 00:46:48,131
and, even then, he tries to avoid
making the impression

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that he's bragging, showing off.

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00:47:01,418 --> 00:47:05,354
When he returned
from an assignment,

145
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and I wanted to grab him

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00:47:08,725 --> 00:47:11,387
and say,
"Tell me about it. How was it?"

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00:47:11,995 --> 00:47:14,429
No, first he had
to develop the pictures

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and then look at them.

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00:47:18,402 --> 00:47:21,064
I don't know
where he kept everything,

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or where he keeps it,

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00:47:23,607 --> 00:47:27,771
because the photo
material alone, the pictures,

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are only a fraction
of what he has seen, felt, smelled

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00:47:33,717 --> 00:47:35,082
and heard.

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00:47:37,621 --> 00:47:42,081
He has his own library
of suffering in his head.

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00:47:54,438 --> 00:47:59,102
What were you thinking of?
Don't you want to talk about it?

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01:04:04,407 --> 01:04:07,274
Allah is great!

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01:09:48,050 --> 01:09:50,848
I feel that
James Nachtwey's pictures

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possess the precision
of a war surgeon.

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01:09:55,524 --> 01:09:58,459
He hates to hear that.
He doesn't want to be compared

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01:09:58,928 --> 01:10:00,418
to a war surgeon,

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01:10:00,930 --> 01:10:02,488
because everyone
will then say,

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01:10:02,831 --> 01:10:04,560
"Aha, a
cold-hearted war surgeon."

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01:10:30,092 --> 01:10:34,995
He is unrelentless when dealing
with people and situations.

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01:10:36,665 --> 01:10:39,759
This very old-fashioned,

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01:10:40,269 --> 01:10:42,134
very unmodern characteristic

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01:10:43,005 --> 01:10:46,133
makes him, at the same time,
so untypical, so fascinating.

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Do I make a living
from other people's suffering?

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01:24:18,653 --> 01:24:21,588
Has their suffering
and misery been...

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01:24:23,191 --> 01:24:26,126
my ladder to success?

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01:24:27,395 --> 01:24:30,125
Do I exploit people?

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01:24:31,232 --> 01:24:35,100
Am I the bloodsucker?
The vampire with the camera?

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Thank you.